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On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Szabo, Patrick (LNG-VIE)
<patrick.szabo@lexisnexis.at> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Forrest and my boss in all it's wisdom decided that i have to
> administrate our forrest installation now.
> I wasn't involved in our installation until now.
>
> I've already read the forrest documentation and it did help me, but
> there are quite a few question that i couldn't answer.
Yeah, in trying to answer your question I realize that the
documentation in this area is weak. After you understand this stuff,
it'd be great if you could contribute to them.
> I understand that i can use fields to search with lucene. Is there a
> list somewhere where i can see which fields are available ?!
For any given document, you can add a .lucene extension and the
element names are the searchable field names. These are mostly title,
subtitle, abstract, version, author, and content.
> Can i somehow add fields ?!
I don't think there's a way to add per-project fields, but for you
Forrest implementation, you can try to add it into
$FORREST_HOME/main/webapp/resources/stylesheets/xdoc-to-lucene.xsl
> We have an element <revised modified="23.06.2010"/> in our source xml
> and i would like to be able to serch for the date. E.g. i want to see
> all the documents that where modified last week.
Hmm... I'm not sure, I reckon you'd have to index it based on its xdoc
equivalent.
> I've got a few more questions but i don't want to pack them all in just
> one mail.
Yeah, one per thread is always preferred - mail threads are cheap though:)
I'm not sure what version of Forrest you are on but I had to do some
hacking just to get the indexing to work - I reckon it's been a
long-standing bug. I'll take that up on the dev@ list though. Good
luck!
--tim